SEC chair Paul Atkins says crypto deserves regulatory clarity

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Chairman Paul Atkins has called out the agency’s previous administration as having fostered “uncertainty.” Atkins made the remarks in his first public appearance since officially taking charge as the SEC chair. He was speaking at the regulatory watchdog’s crypto roundtable in Washington DC. He slammed the SEC’s approach over the past four years as largely having stifled innovation. “Innovation, unfortunately, has been stifled for the last several...